different between tantalize vs tantalum

English

Etymology

From Tantalus (????????) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There, he had to stand for eternity in water that receded from him when he stooped to drink, beneath fruit trees whose branches were always out of reach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tænt?la?z/

Verb

tantalize (third-person singular simple present tantalizes, present participle tantalizing, simple past and past participle tantalized)

1. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach
2. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied

Quotations

• 1880 — John Boyle O'Reilly, Moondyne

  They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.

• 1884 — Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland, section 22

  All pleasures palled upon me; all sights tantalized and tempted me to outspoken treason, because I could not but compare what I saw in Two Dimensions with what it really was if seen in Three, and could hardly refrain from making my comparisons aloud.

• “It was—simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.”

• 1936 — H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, Ch. IX

  As we threaded our dim way through the labyrinth with the aid of map and compass ... we were repeatedly tantalized by the sculptured walls along our route. ... If we had had more films, we would certainly have paused briefly to photograph certain bas-reliefs, but time-consuming hand-copying was clearly out of the question.

Related terms

• tantalizing

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• tantalium (obsolete)

Etymology

A New Latin word derived by Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg in 1802, from Latin Tantalus, named in honor of Tantalus. See -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?n't?l?m, IPA^(key): /?tænt?l?m/

Noun

tantalum (countable and uncountable, plural tantalums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ta) with atomic number 73: a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Tantalum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “tantalum”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Danish

Noun

tantalum

1. (now rare) Alternative form of tantal
   • 1870, Mathilde Ørsted, Breve fra og til Hans Christian Ørsted, page 37

     ... og et nyt Metal, som skal kaldes Tantalum.

     ... and a new metal, which is to be called tantalum.

   • 1975, Tandlægebladet

     ... individer med tantalum implantater^[sic] i kæberne ...

     ... individuals with tantalum implants in their jaws ...

   • 2002, Taenk + Test

     Det indeholder grundstoffet tantalum, ...

     It contains the element tantalum, ...

   • 1961, Tidsskrift for sygeplejersker

     ... bomuld, hør, hamp, syntetiske fibre, rustfrit stål og tantalum, ...

     ... cotton, flax, hemp, synthetic fibers, stainless steel and tantalum, ...

   • 1914, Gads danske magasin

     Paa dette Omraade har man dog fundet et Erstatningsmiddel i Tantalum, ...

     In this area, a substitute has been found in tantalum, ...

   • 1963, Aarhus universitet, Aarsberetning

     ... ved behandling […] af cancer vesicae (med radioaktivt tantalum).

     ... by treatment […] of cancer vesicae (using radioactive tantalum).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tan.ta.lum/, [?t?än?t?ä?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tan.ta.lum/, [?t??n?t??lum]

Noun

tantalum n (genitive tantal?); second declension

1. tantalum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??n??a??l??m]

Noun

tantalum n

1. (uncountable) tantalum
2. A part of tantalum

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From English tantalum, from New Latin [Term?], from Latin tantalus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tantalom], [tantal?m], [t?nt?l?m]
• Rhymes: -alom, -lom, -om

Noun

tantalum

1. tantalum